Estimating groundwater vulnerability to pollution using a modified DRASTIC model in the Kerman agricultural area, Iran

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3119-3131

  Neshat, Aminreza ^a   Pradhan, Biswajeet ^a   Pirasteh, Saied ^b   Shafri, Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

GIS; Groundwater; Hydrogeology; Kerman plain; Modified DRASTIC; Sensitivity analysis; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY; KERMAN PLAIN; MODIFIED DRASTIC; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL TESTS; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; VULNERABILITY;

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AQUIFER POLLUTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; NITRATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

IRAN; KERMAN [IRAN];

EID: 84900615209     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2690-7     Document Type: Article

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